Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 222

When Ye Feng saw Roy at the hotel where he was staying, he was a little surprised, because Roy's physical condition seemed to be in good condition, and he didn't gain weight because of his absence.This is not easy for a player with a foot injury. After all, you cannot ask him to perform recovery training in the gym or other places every day. Nine out of ten reasons for being able to maintain such a figure are due to the influence of diet. Intake has strict and even demanding requirements.

Seeing Ye Feng with a surprised face, Roy smiled, took the initiative to hug him, and said in a low voice: "You can continue to play according to your ideas, don't worry about me, I will follow the substitute lineup to find out the status Say it again."

Ye Feng nodded and didn't say anything.In fact, he had already guessed Roy's thoughts, and the head coach would not directly let him start.For Roy, getting back to his previous state is the most important thing at the moment, because the Blazers need him to contribute to the team.Although they are now leading 3 to 1, the Suns are still a strong team. The Trail Blazers are only one step away from the counterattack, which includes many factors, but the real strength is indeed difficult to compare with the Suns.After Roy's comeback, it will be different. As long as he can play at the previous level, no, [-]% or [-]%, then the Blazers will not be able to reach the semifinals again.Continuing to allow Ye Feng to control the ball, on the one hand, he can still maintain his strength in the first battle, and on the other hand, Roy will get more freedom in the substitute lineup.

However, during the warm-up before the game, Ye Feng found that the injury still had a certain impact on Roy. Many of his habitual warm-up movements were ignored, and those movements would put a lot of load on the legs. .Obviously, regardless of the medical diagnosis of Roy's injury, at least he consciously began to protect his ankle and knee. Ye Feng was very curious whether he could really quickly forget his injury.

But in any case, Roy will definitely play, which is what McMillan means.In the locker room, he bluntly said to all the players: "This game will be very difficult. I am not alarmist, because we will use this game to run in. Yes, you heard it right, it is running in. Brandon's The return from injury has given me more confidence, but now he can't contribute to the team as before. He still needs time to adapt, but I believe he will return to us with 100% status soon In the middle, help the team reach the Western Conference semifinals again. So the most important thing in this game is to help Brandon get back to his form. Of course, it would be great to beat the Suns to advance on this basis."

Everyone looked at each other, and almost everyone heard the subtext of the head coach: the outcome of this game is not as important as imagined, in order to help Roy regain his form, it is allowed to strategically abandon this series .No one objected, including Ye Feng, because the head coach did have his reasons. What Roy needs most now is time, and what the Blazers need most is time. After all, there is only one game left. Direct promotion, and Roy in 100% state undoubtedly added a very heavy weight to the Blazers' playoff journey.

And everyone really needs time to rest. Of course, this does not mean that you can play soy sauce on the court, but it is true that you don't have to play as hard as you did in the previous games.In fact, as long as the players persist until the playoffs, they have endured more pressure and fatigue than before in the regular season. If some adjustments and compromises are made inappropriately, they may indeed be able to achieve better results, but There is bound to be a heavier price to pay.And the Trail Blazers this season can no longer stand the toss. If the main lineup suffers another injury, they can pack up and go home early.

But having said that, McMillan still has almost the same starting lineup as the previous game, except that Batum replaced Fernandez as the team's second position.Batum doesn't mind. Anyway, he is only a wing player with height, but his skills and style can be used in the backcourt.In fact, this is also McMillan's care for Roy, because in this way Fernandez can take on the important task of organizing in the second team, giving Roy more time and opportunities to regain his touch.

McMillan's idea is very good, but the plan can't keep up with the changes.I don’t know if it’s because the Suns fans also know what happened in the Rose Garden Arena in the last game. Anyway, the drum noise at the American Airlines Center in this game sounds much louder than the first and second games. The Blazers players They were caught off guard.Only Miller, Camby, and Ye Feng were able to perform normally in the first quarter. Miller and Camby had played in the league for many seasons. For them, this was just a small scene, while Ye Feng It's because he put all his energy on organizing the offense, so it doesn't matter whether he has a touch or not.

Richardson was still the first to break out in the Suns. Ye Feng even subconsciously wondered if this guy would get excited as soon as he beat the Trail Blazers. In the first four games, Richardson was able to contribute in almost every game. Very beautiful data, his strong containment force on the outside makes the combination of Nash and Stoudemire more powerful.So when the two sides replaced the substitute lineup at the same time, the Blazers were behind in the score. The most important thing they should do now is to fill in this hole first. In the end, it will not be too late to decide who loses and who wins until the fourth quarter. ah!
But the problem now is that most of the Blazers' shooting rights are given to Roy, and occasionally some are given to others.As a player who has just come back from injury, how could he score as soon as he came on the field?It takes some time to get used to it, but compared to a game, Roy takes too long. Not only did he fail to help the team narrow the point difference, but because of continuous strikes, Frye and Dudley further widened the point difference open.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Roy. He wants to do his best to help the team score. There is nothing wrong with that, but as the saying goes, haste makes waste. The vicious circle got deeper and deeper.This is not a good thing, but it is the pain he must go through when he returns. Ye Feng looked at Roy who continued to run hard on the field with some sympathy, and secretly sighed:
"In this game, let's win as little as we lose. At least we earned a Roy, didn't we?"

(End of this chapter)